Kat Cornetta went from blogging for fun in her (most likely illegal) attic apartment in Jamaica Plain to writing C1 features for the Boston Globe. It’s been a wild decade of writing, but she wouldn’t change any of this unexpected journey.

Kat is a freelance sportswriter with 11 years of experience contributing to Boston-based and national publications. Several of her stories have been turned into national television features, and she has become a sought-after contributor in women’s college hockey, gymnastics and figure skating.

Kat has covered women’s college hockey for 11 years, writing about the sport for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, USCHO, New England Hockey Journal and BU Today. In 2021-22, she was tapped to write the first-ever weekly Boston Globe column dedicated solely to women’s college hockey.

She has covered multiple major events, including four Women’s Frozen Fours (2013, 2016, 2021, 2022), four U.S. Gymnastics Championships (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018), three U.S. Figure Skating Championships (2014, 2015, 2022) and the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships. She is in the midst of a multi-year project to chronicle the decline in boys high school gymnastics offerings in America.

In addition to those three sports, Kat got her start writing about lacrosse and has also covered football, men’s college hockey and track and field.

A native of Rochester, NY, Kat is a graduate of Rochester’s School of the Arts, Binghamton University and Boston University. She lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with her family and a cat named after Marv Levy.